TooKool4This

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by TooKool4This 5y ago
> Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are quasi-police states [1] and will probably mandate vaccination+boosters soon. Regardless of whatever metric you use to define “freedom” all of those countries rank higher than the US pre-Covid for
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
That’s actually very interesting! I just got done reading the Three-Body problem which is translated from Chinese and there was a very strong escapist narrative which felt very strange for a westerner reading it. This actually adds a lot of
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
> Many people talk about vim lately, probably the most I've seen and I'm still not sure why. Extrapolating from personal experience, I think this might be down to Covid WFH where more people have had to ssh into remote machines
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
I wonder if this will encourage a renaissance in China of LAN play, more P2P protocols for online gaming, and informal game servers run by people you know (rather than the game publisher). Sounds like it could be kinda fun (nostalgia for me
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
> Remember when the previous administration suggested looking into the Lab Leak theory and was laughed at? Remember when the head of the previous administration thought injecting disinfectants or UV light was a possible solution to Covid
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
I see this point often brought up to detract from green energy sources. But I fail to see how it would be possible to transition to any new green technology without relying on the existing energy infrastructure for manufacturing. This attit
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
Very interesting article, would definitely like to read the paper when I get the time. Something I would like to understand is how these old systems scaled the reference measurements to order of magnitude larger/smaller weights to meas
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
> I would also enjoy a maximize button that does maximize the window and not create a virtual space with the application in full-screen. This was the biggest thing that annoyed me when switching from Windows. I’ve been using SizeUp for 5
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
I am not sure its a problem of our species (most species seek to expand their footprint in the world) but considering we have the cognition to understand our impact on the world, it seems imperative that we minimize our impact to some exten
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by TooKool4This 5y ago
Transferring songs and playlist is actually very easy (unless you are listening to very niche stuff). Songshift (no affiliation) worked very well for my needs and moved most of my playlists and songs over. Not sure about discover weekly tho
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Aside from the language features, some of the libraries in Julia make it really useful for statistical computing. One really cool library I am trying to use more and more in Julia is the Measurements library [1]. With the multiple dispatch
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
If I understand correctly, the audiophile review is claiming to recommend a network switch based on the difference of a few pico seconds of jitter!? Surely that is outside the range of human perceptibly right? The main issue here is mixing
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
> Unlikely things happen all the time. If he lost money, this article wouldn’t exist. Exactly! The person you replied to did the right calculation but completely threw away the context. The argument here is akin to p-hacking where all th
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
That’s pretty cool! I’m going along in the same vein. I know my median guess was taken first so I can’t actually win but I just wanted to see how close I could get out of curiosity. I am surprised the median was an accurate estimator in you
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Yep looks like there are but are in the higher range of the distribution (>300). Updated the post with some interesting plots. I would really like to use a z-score metric to remove the outliers and fit a gamma distribution, but unfortuna
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
I tried applying the wisdom of crowds idea instead :D https://twitter.com/SmittyW62858649/status/13589265825139957... Not sure if taking a median is the best idea. I figure a gamma distribution might work better!
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
I think trying to fit a single solution to the entire range of schooling is a bad idea. In the earlier years of your life, a big part of schooling is “learning how to learn” whether implicitly or explicitly. By the time you get to universit
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
I believe there would be minimal practical impact in any case. In the case of anisotropy of the physical constants, it would have to be so small that to date independent labs around the world haven’t detected a difference outside of the mea
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
One interesting thing to consider is the Paradox of Tolerance[1]. In the case of our society, allowing the norms to be consistently pushed can lead to the rise of intolerance. Not to mention that the decisions to ban Trump certainly wasn’t
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Well said. The ability to better realize primary standards and disseminate that to secondary metrology labs from national standards is so critical. It’s the same reason I think the work done in changing the SI definition to physical constan
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Specific to my knowledge base, timing is critical to applications in inertial sensors (IMUs that guide missiles, AR/VR, smartphone apps, and so much more). To that end, here is interesting work that DARPA is doing in developing inertia
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
I don't see how with that arrangement they could guarantee the app is also not collecting and uploading data in addition to the data saved on Microsoft's servers. It would come down to trying to prove a negative which is not reall
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
After working in a particularly magnetics heavy project at work an analogue that I found works better is picturing the flux lines as “fluidic” and emulating common fluid behavior. For example, having a ferromagnetic material within a magnet
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Definitely! I had an opportunity to visit their physical measurement labs and get a tour of their facilities as part of my job and the amount of detail poured into every single aspect of the measurement system for primary standards was amaz
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
There are 3rd party replacements for USB-C MagSafe connectors if you do ever need to upgrade. Don't know if they get the sweet spot for retention force that the old MagSafe connector did but I have seen some co-workers use it without i
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Wow that was awesome and super easy. Thanks for the tip, didn't know iOS Safari had an API for content blocking, I will need to explore that more.
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Any solutions for mobile (iOS)? This problem is really painful on mobile devices where (in Safari) the popup takes up half the screen after the url+nav bars takes up a quarter leaving you with 25% of the screen to look at the actual content
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Interesting tool but couldn’t discern the interface from the README. On a side note, does anyone have any recommendations for C++ plotting libraries that integrate nicely with Eigen matrices/vectors? Even better if it is usable through
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
I agree with you and I’ve made the same observation but I don’t think it’s due to some misplaced sense of superiority. I think it’s simply because it has been a while since disease and pestilence was a worry for the average Western country
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by TooKool4This 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by pancake. But I feel its mostly rotational motion that is perceptible in VR demos rather than translational motion. I suspect that's because a small rotational motion results in a large shift in perspective for

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